The Italian Job - The Alpine Highway 'Accident'

[gyro231995]

The Miura is wonderful, but by the way he has to move the wheel it looks like he is driving a truck by today's standards.

[TimesInfinity101]

I had a dream I was watching this film last night. There deleted scenes inserted, one of which showed the Minis escaping along a beach, and they drove past the wreck of the Lamborghini washed up with the rotting corpse of Roger Beckerman still inside!

[Bhoys6707]

@TimesInfinity101 thats slightly disturbing but you can see the Mafia doing it,

[guthywoodry]

AD1969 -One fine year from The Golden Age of Cinema.

Why can't they make cool films anymore?

Yeh, I know they try so hard to be cool..., but fail.

-Perhaps trying to be cool is why they fail.

[BannedFromThisSite]

Somehow, I don't think it helped that he had sunglasses on whilst inside the tunnel. :/

[gurlsingerfan]

Anyone know what the little black doll of a car the guys are walking in front of at 4:05? "The Italian Job is all about the cars...:-)

[JordanEmonds]

@gurlsingerfan - Its a 1967 Fiat Dino Coupé 2000 mate :]

[gurlsingerfan]

@JordanEmonds By golly IT IS! Thanks for the info...I have seen Dino's before, but somehow the color of the car and the angle of the shot really captured how pretty the lines are on this car...classically Italian pretty, what a wonderful movie for us car fans and what a wonderful car to just be sort of casually in the scene....:-)

[girlracerf1]

@gurlsingerfan isn't the car a lamborghini miura?

[gurlsingerfan]

@girlracerf1 The car running through the mountain road and that is destroyed is a Lamborghinin Miura, an oh so beautiful piece of work it was :-). I was curious though about the black car at 4:05 the gangster is walking in front of as they are pushing the Miura over the cliff. The character is leaning against the nose of it at 3:06 as the bulldozer is backing out of the tunnel. I could not place that car! There are fascinating cars scattered all through this film, great vintage stuff! :-)

[fidan2fast]

@JordanEmonds I guarantee it is a Miura

[JordanEmonds]

@fidan2fast - he means the bad guys black coupe Fiat mate, the red car ruined is a 1967 Lamborghini Miura P400 ;) and the car was just a shell, no engine or gearbox, it was an empty shell due to cheaper destroyment of it

[fidan2fast]

@JordanEmonds yes i got what he ment but it was too late : )

sorry for trying to be a smartass

[RooniusMaximus]

@JordanEmonds

That's a great shout. It had to be a Fiat group car, but I had no idea that that car even existed.

[LeoErba]

Name of the song?

[BannedFromThisSite]

@LeoErba On Days Like These - Matt Munro